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Text Object Bar

Contains formatting commands for text that is contained in a draw object. The Text Object bar appears when you double-click inside a draw object.

Font Name

Allows you to select a font name from the list or enter a font name directly.

You can enter several fonts, separated by semicolons. OpenOffice.org uses each named font in succession if the previous fonts are not available.

Font Name

Font Size

Allows you to choose between different font sizes from the list, or to enter a size manually.

Font Size

Bold

Makes the selected text bold. If the cursor is in a word, the entire word is made bold. If the selection or word is already bold, the formatting is removed.

Bold

Italic

Makes the selected text italic. If the cursor is in a word, the entire word is made italic. If the selection or word is already italic, the formatting is removed.

Italic

Underline

Underlines or removes underlining from the selected text.

Underline

Superscript

Reduces the font size of the selected text and raises the text above the baseline.

Superscript

Subscript

Reduces the font size of the selected text and lowers the text below the baseline.

Subscript

Left

Aligns the selected paragraph(s) to the left page margin.

Align Left

Center

Centers the selected paragraph(s) on the page.

Centered

Right

Aligns the selected paragraph(s) to the right page margin.

Align Right

Justify

Aligns the selected paragraph(s) to the left and the right page margins. If you want, you can also specify the alignment options for the last line of a paragraph by choosing Format - Paragraph - Alignment.

Justified

Asian Language Support

These commands can only be accessed after you enable support for Asian languages in Tools - Options - Language Settings - Languages.

Text running from left to right

Specifies the horizontal direction of the text.

Text direction from left to right

Text running from top to bottom

Specifies the vertical direction of the text.

Text direction from top to bottom

Select All

Selects the entire content of the current file, frame, or text object.

Select All

Character

Changes the font and the font formatting for the selected characters.

Character

Paragraph

Here you can define the indents, spacing, alignment and line spacing for the paragraph currently selected.

Paragraph

Index

fonts, specifying several

alternative fonts

characters, alternative fonts

text, bold

bold, text

characters, bold

text, italics

italic text

characters, italics

characters,underlining

underlining,characters

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